"Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."
ProProfs is an effective, highly functional, user friendly and convenient way to conduct almost every assessment you can imagine. I highly recommend it as a tool for quizzes and tests. I found it ideal for the classroom, in both on-ground and online learning environments.
"One of the hardest thing with using the iPad in the classroom is finding the time to go through all of the apps in the iTunes Store listed under the education banner. We have started to list some of the apps we've found under each of the Key Learning Areas."
"Evernote gives administrators the tools to capture anything, access it anywhere, and find things easily. "
While this blog post features how admin can use Evernote it is a good example of best practice for this free tool.
"TeachersFirst's Classroom Resources area includes anything you would use with students in the classroom. You can find over 12,000 educator-reviewed web resources, searchable by subject/grade or keyword."
"January is a good time to take a look at your class Twitter account and see if it's all it can be. Below are some ideas to excite you again about the power of Twitter in your classroom!"